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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
"When Kyle learns that the world's most famous game maker, Luigi Lemoncello, has designed the town's new library and is having an invitation-only lock-in on opening night, he's determined to be there! But the tricky part isn't getting into the library--it's getting out. Because when morning comes, the doors stay locked. Kyle and the other kids must solve every clue and figure out every secret puzzle to find the hidden escape route!"--
Author
Series
Lola reads volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
Lola loves to hear Daddy read a new library book each night, an activity that spurs her imagination and results in inventive play the next day.
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Description
"'There are books that are suitable for a million people, others for only a hundred. There are even remedies--I mean books--that were written for one person only...A book is both medic and medicine at once. It makes a diagnosis as well as offering therapy. Putting the right novels to the appropriate ailments: that's how I sell books.' Monsieur Perdu calls himself a literary apothecary. From his floating bookstore in a barge on the Seine, he prescribes...
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Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 18
Description
"When Brystal Evergreen stumbles across a secret section of the library, she discovers a book that introduces her to a world beyond her imagination and learns the impossible: She is a fairy capable of magic! But in the oppressive Southern Kingdom, women are forbidden from reading and magic is outlawed, so Brystal is swiftly convicted of her crimes and sent to the miserable Bootstrap Correctional Facility. But with the help of the mysterious Madame...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
From the Bodleian, the Folger and the Smithsonian to the fabled libraries of Middle Earth and other fictional libraries, Kells explores the bookish places that capture our imaginations. The result is a fascinating and engaging exploration of libraries as places of beauty and wonder, a celebration of books as objects and an account of the deeply personal nature of these hallowed spaces.
7) The bee tree
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
To teach his daughter the value of books, a father leads a growing crowd in search of the tree where the bees keep all their honey.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Before there were workshops and degrees, how did aspiring writers learn to write? By reading the work of their predecessors and contemporaries, says author and teacher Prose. Prose invites you on a guided tour of the tools and the tricks of the masters. She reads the very best writers and discovers why their work has endured. She takes pleasure in the magnificent sentences of Philip Roth and the breathtaking paragraphs of Isaac Babel; she is moved...
Author
Publisher
Quill
Pub. Date
2003
Description
What does it mean when a fictional hero takes a journey?. Shares a meal? Gets drenched in a sudden rain shower? Often, there is much more going on in a novel or poem than is readily visible on the surface -- a symbol, maybe, that remains elusive, or an unexpected twist on a character - and there's that sneaking suspicion that the deeper meaning of a literary text keeps escaping you. In this practical and amusing guide to literature, Thomas C. Foster...
11) Don't blink!
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"A page turns every time you blink, bringing you closer to the end of the book--and bedtime"--
Win the staring contest and you don't have to go to bed! An interactive bedtime story that gives young readers a chance to avoid bedtime, provided they don't blink, but for every blink, a page turns, bringing the end of the story and sleep closer.
12) Reading with babies, toddlers, and twos: a guide to choosing, reading, and loving books together
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
Presents guidance on how, why, and what to read to one's baby, from newborn to age two, providing annotated book lists.
13) The book thief
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
Appears on list
Description
Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"From the very cover of this picture book, a funny blue monster pleads with readers not to keep reading. As his pleas grow more impassioned, however, readers will delight in doing exactly what they are asked not to do--no matter the consequences for the blue monster!"--
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Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
What happens when the book gets it wrong? Max is not a cat-- Max is a dog! But much to his dismay, this book keeps instructing readers to "see the cat." How can Max get through to the book that he is a dog? In a trio of stories for beginning readers, author David LaRochelle introduces the excitable Max, who lets the book know in irresistibly emphatic dialogue that the text is not to his liking. Illustrator Mike Wohnoutka hilariously depicts the pup's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Bored with another normal, inky evening, bats discover an open library window and fly in to enjoy the photocopier, water fountain, and especially the books and stories found there.
Author
Publisher
Park Row Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
All it takes is the right book to turn a Book Hater into a Book Lover. That was Elliott's belief and the reason why he started The Book Haters' Book Club, a newsletter of reading recommendations for the self-proclaimed "nonreader." As the beloved co-owner of Over the Rainbow Bookstore, Elliott's passion and gift was recommending books to customers. Now, after his sudden death, his grief-ridden business partner, Irma, has agreed to sell Over the Rainbow...
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